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nigeria and wanda model toys, i would love to talk some more conservation from joy in the traffic and feeding the game africa direct on just the latest news as it breaks this particular sub station. let's bring it in 3 separate effects. why fix russian we saw with detailed coverage, they had hoped that the us would relax water pandemic restrictions this week, which would likely have better. they're also getting in from around the world over 3000000 people built that a 3 and one of their support for you and in their feet and the national team ah,
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let me bark window. the top stories i'll just europe. fighting in ukraine's dumbass region is intensifying with rushes, forces strengthened by fighters from the wagner group, the british defense ministry says it appears. russia has taken control of much of the salt mining town of sola. ukraine's military has been fending off attacks near the town for 4 days near back loot where troops on both sides have suffered heavy losses. charles stratford has more now from keith. but it's very difficult, as you can imagine, to verify these kind of claims. what we do know though, is that solid is a huge strategic importance as part of why the assault by russian forces on the town of buck, mood solid, are, is around 20 kilometers north, east of buck. moot, a small mining town and you have a population of around $10000.00. we've seen video evidence of face bottles ongoing . there certainly the u. k. defense ministry saying they think it's likely that
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russian forces have taken control of most of that town last night. we heard from president lynn sky saying that the ukrainian forces and his words had one more time in, in solid off again pointing to the importance of moods to the south. we also know though that this town has been contested for months now largely been hit by heavy artillery from the russians. but we knew we do know now that according to military analysts, and these intelligence reports that the fighting seems to be very heavy. and in the streets, indeed, there been witnesses quoted on some of the agencies who managed to escape the town describing having to move back street by street as tanks moved in or russian state news agencies reporting that moscow has appointed colonel general alexander lap. and as the new chief of staff of the ground forces lapin was the
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commander of russia, central military drift. district him was blasted last october by hawkish allies or president vladimir putin. after russian forces were driven out of the city of lamont and eastern ukraine. this promotion has not been confirmed nor denied by the kremlin. china has expended short term visas for south koreans and japanese is in reaction to covered 19 curves imposed on chinese travelers. caterina you reports, beijing. sally's passengers must tests before they bought their flight to south korea and on arrival. and if they found positive the cove at 19, they must quarantine the 7 days. south gray is also restricting visas for chinese travelers, as well as limiting flights from china to south korea. so why is this happening now? well, this may not be the only reason carbonite in might not be. the only reason south korea's parliamentary leader has recently visited taiwan and that would have no doubt agood day. jean saudi arabia are moving all cove at 19 restrictions for the
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hodge pilgrimage this year. it's welcoming by pre pandemic numbers of visitors to the holy site usually draws more than $2000000.00 people each year to the city of mca lease 17 people have been killed in southern peru during anti government processed demand. in the release of former president pedro castillo, most of the deaths occurred as people try to overrun an airport in the city of utica. peruse, human rights agency has called for an investigation reserves president louis missouri, leila da silva, has criticized the army for not doing enough to stop the supporters of jaya. bol sanara from storming the nation seats of power. lula accused the general of not standing up to the protest as who were allowed to camp outside the military headquarters in brazilian. lulu made those statements during a meeting with governors, where he vowed to punish those behind sundays a tag. you're, it wasn't, joe biden has pushed for tougher action on a legal migration and drugs in
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a meeting with his mexican counterpart. the talks in mexico city come ahead of the north american summit and they'll be joined by canada's prime minister just intruder or the u. s. president has declared a state of emergency in california where millions of people are bracing for more severe storms. at least 12 people have died in the past 10 days. okay, you're up to date. those are the headlines. the news continues here on our g 0. that's after time of pandemic. stay with us for that. ah ah, presently we're being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep pores. primarily because planet earth is better known now as planet far
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animal bat are reservoirs for av pathogens. are coming up right up against new agriculture spilling over into the livestock. and then from there, spreading out onto the global travel science is in the middle of a political battle. what direction are we going to continue to conduct our civilization? are we going to continue on this pathway, or are we going to choose a different path in the path that the lends itself to have a better balance between our right to be here on the planet and survive. and the
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animals and landscape upon which we depend in order to do that. human societies have long faced the threats of disease. despite so many breakthroughs in modern medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contend. we have destroyed our by that we have harmed the plant and the planet will eat. so if our expense at the expense of these global markets, it's just an inevitable. the worry is that there's no handle this thing is going to be a force all of its own. southern
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africa i saw recently live series, the worst impacts of the h. i. v. pandemic. millions of people have died. millions of lives have been turned upside down. and then along comes covert and we have another pandemic to tackle on top of h r v the h i v experience taught us a lot about science, vaccines and healthy justice, but when it comes to cov 90, did the world learn anything from us? ah, before i became a filmmaker, i worked in h. i v. prevention back then. hard lessons were
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learned. not just in south africa, but globally. we learned the few people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that where this the political will. everyone can have access to the medicine they need. as i said, we learned this the hard way, an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger that has become a threat to his old. it is a deadly disease, and there is no known cure so far as being confined to small groups. but it's spreading. if you ignore aids, it could be the death of me said don't die of ignorance. many roasts were 1st introduced to h. r. v. through this kind of messaging, the implication was,
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if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame by the people who are most affected by h r. v was somehow narrow down to the for h's. according to the u. s. center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patient's parent, alex, and whom affiliate or we were told, the virus originated enough, the monkey, which we now know to be true. with the lack of information about how the virus jumped from one species to another, led to some pretty offensive conclusions, and stoked the blame game to the emerging health crisis. we were going to fix the subject matter if
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o arb seen pho remoting until we are ready to discourage and do our dear level best to eliminate the types of activities which have caused the spread of the aids epidemic. god normally where ever gone to solving 1978 representatives of 134 countries, 67 international organizations. and i've also asked a chess to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases, for which emigrants and alien seeking permanent residents in the united states can be denied entry. ah. so when you ask the question, does h i the cause aids? the question is, does a virus cause and syndrome? how does a virus course, a syndrome? it gone in the 19 ninety's and becky had argued
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against the science and was deeply skeptical of anti retroviral drugs. well enough, forgotten. his argument was a h r. v was part of a continuing conspiracy against africans. treatment of aids was declared near impossible, impractical and not cost effective. dod, i'm blue haired on deep the nihilism and lame. he was so adamant about her toxic intervals were that it almost seemed that he would do anything in his power never to allow them to be used in south africa, yet more to than have been infected with h. i v in south africa over this today conference then will be infected in other, the united kingdom or the us in the whole of this year. and i think that's an
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important and frustration was running high because richer nations had the access to the new drugs developed to treat h r v. but not south africa. not unless you had lots of money that is for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to fight medical schools really hard around the exclusion that they had about which person was considered innocent enough to access a r v. as those were regarded as nurses who had needle stick injuries, somebody who was raped could excess al means, but not somebody who was gay. that somebody who had consensual sex and men became h. i v positive. those are really difficult in dock times. and i think as a young lawyer activist, it really opened my eyes. the
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face of us dog does doesn't lie with science. the failure of not treating a chevy lies and in the political will of all a government to cheat this it was a difficult time. it to the power of the people through the treatment action campaign to make a r v trip. not the reality we demanding that i don't a square to our last dominion as well as problem big. he tried to deny the existence of treatment action campaign put up the entire miserable effect of aids, frightened, his face. it
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is garbers faking from duluth and community, or wyoming and getting the hell across privacy. and robin school. oh, you're good and do change. in the course of a few years, the treatment action campaign i did by former president nelson mandela, and sure that the she was firmly placed on the international agenda. as the lead is of the global health response president george bush onset by championing their charitable efforts the doctrine rural south africa describes his frustration. he says we have no medicines, many hospitals tell people you've got age. we can't help you go home and die in an age or miraculous medicines. no person should have to hear those words.
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the programs be headed by doctor antony found she. it benefited from the decision one of the major companies to drop that peyton's voluntarily. this led to drugs being made available at a fraction of the price, but just for the developing world. for millions around the globe, the aid came too late. in south africa alone, we currently have 9000000 people who are h i v positive july 20. and will will, and i'm at the time in the ninety's. there are no pause. you see a peasant changing to a skeleton uses me so scary. so yeah, i h i v, i don't know what to do and i'm a good. i was good. it was,
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it was me, me of the this by having one of the largest android ball tipping programs in the world . we still have not been able to control a chevy transmission so just in terms of what's done. and so i turned my attention to working in a shabby vaccine research so that she could find effective ways to prevent
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transmission. i'm so glad that you've chosen to participate in the study. thank you for contributing to finding solutions personally for myself at home, linda or my whole family. if i get a bit emotional when i'm, when i'm talking about h, i b was my mother, my father. my uncle's everyone. so we suffered a lot when i lost my parents, of course for the h i v pound we're oh has health. mister lucas was one. it's well, we had to go live with people. yes, we got big food from people because of h i v. i understand if my mother was still alive, my parents until i my life and a chain. so h o v is, i don't know how to explain, i'm very scared of h i v. so that's why i will is what, when i try to something those can i help in the future for this it appears to be
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prevented. glenda gray is leading an international collaboration to find at h. i v vaccine spearheaded by the h i v vaccine trout network. larry curry heads up this vast organization there is publicly funded through the u. s. government vaccines had been left to the development by pharmaceutical companies, bailey essence, with the side, what vaccines they were gonna investigate. and the reality is,
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is that that often is the balance between their perceived market and societal need . in h i v, there was a huge the sale the need. there is an enormous amount of infection in the under developed world and the non pharmaceutical market world. so you saw very rapid dropout rapid this investment one really needed to provide the clinical infrastructure to do the clinical trial. this is the most expensive part of doing drug development. and we are going to, as a society, create an infrastructure i'm
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learning about the wonder of antibody mediated prevention, a clinical trial with the most beautiful cutting edge vaccine science. it is taken decades to develop something that targets h o. v's unique ability to evade a traditional vaccine. it feels like we're on the cusp of something really big here. the reason we call it number one of your seo. why was the 1st potent antibody that we were able to obtain from one of the volunteers turned out to be an individual who was in clinical trials volunteering at an age donated his blood. and the serum had these tremendously potent antibodies against the virus. he was happy to volunteer and he knew that we isolated the santa by from the time
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and when that was done, several apps found and were actually able to make in the lab protein. the antibody protein that was able to kill block each ivy very potent where recommends using those in the amp study, we're not giving a vaccine, we're actually giving the antibody protein itself. if a person individual had those air bodies before they were actually exposed, it could be completely prevented from infection. so we're almost taking a step beyond vaccine. we're skipping a step and actually giving the body the immune proteins itself. the humanness of this, that someone who has h i v infection could actually provide someone who doesn't have h, i v infection to actually prevent them from getting which idea what a wonderful story. what about what a while and their fall example of biology. the
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genesis of this undertaking started on a napkin on the 19th floor of this hotel. we sit down and sort of draw it on a napkin, like how would we test this was end up being a pretty massive undertaking. global pandemic sneak global effort more so when you're dealing with viruses to her rapidly mutating the reason we know what we know today's because scientists have cooperated across many countries patropolis we've been moving increasingly in the direction of research becoming a private affair. determined by competition. and exclusivity the big take out from h r. v was the only massive investment into public health, which sharing research could contain a deadly pandemic. in 2020,
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this put us in a prime position to collaborate, and numerous international covey attracts. he travels to have been involved in a whole lot of covet vaccine opportunities, intensity technically said. and we need to make sure that even though we deem these trials, we have to make sure that we have access to make sure they found to be cases a little less then does it get better? hey, just make it. yeah,
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i. so we have to be committed to the end game. yeah. and end game is an affordable intervention for the poor. and it feels like a festival. when we started with h i v, it was very difficult to isolate an antibody from a person in 20192020. we can do that in a matter of weeks. we can do it 10 times a 100 times faster. and more officially, we have isolated antibodies from cove. it infected people by the hundreds in a few weeks. i think of h, i v a little bit like the nasa space program. it, it brought to bear all kinds of technologies that are bearing fruit in other areas . and one of those areas is emerging viruses like kogan, the biotech firm, modernity therapeutics announced this morning that the 1st 8 participants in the
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1st phase of its covey. 19 vaccine trial develops some antibodies after just one single dose. now that's a promising sign from the trial, done in collaboration with the national institutes of hell. nations with vaccine producing capacity pulled billions into the development of cove with vaccines in return for funding, the manufacturer of vaccines participating drug companies like madonna were given full intellectual property rights over the finished product. government have essentially stepped into the risk investment and in an ideal world, public money should be greater public access. tens of thousands of volunteers signed up to participate in clinical trials. i to
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joint one of the trials in the beliefs of my country would gain access to those vaccines. that was successful. ah right now we've got the us get his or baby fort fixing in france from 3 of the leading groups that are developing vix. yes. so that means our opportunity to gain access to those that since are very limited as an individual country. this was perhaps the 1st sign that things were going astray with south africa's access to vaccines as a middle income country and one so involved in vaccine development. there was no excuse for us not to have pre purchase supplies for our own population. still, there would always be callbacks. the kovacs pillar aims to ensure that
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every country gets fair and equitable access to eventual cove at 19 vaccines. it's not about one country versus another. it's about one world. protected. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found chain. for decades, he's been behind all the key interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. a boda zacko sauce, you name it, but his life's work. his passion has centered around h. r. v. in excuse that an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is the question about that.
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and he bought window the top stories on al jazeera sh, fighting in ukraine's dumbass region is intensifying with rushes, forces strengthened by fighters from the wagner group. the british defense military says it appears. russia has taken control of much of the salt mining town of solider. ukraine's military has been fending off attacks near the town for 4 days. it's near buck moose, where troops on both sides have suffered heavy losses. this is the most intense trench warfare since the war started 11 months ago from keith, his child, strafford. this town has been contested for months now largely, i'm. it's been hit by a heavy artillery from the russians, but we knew we do know now that according to military analysts and these intelligence reports that the fighting seems to be very heavy and in the streets. indeed, there been witnesses quoted on some of the agencies who managed to escape the town describing having to move back street by street as tanks moved in
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interestingly as well. there are reports that heavy contingents of the wagner group, this private mercenary group, whose leader, if kenny pre goes in, is very close to vladimir putin. turner has suspended short term. these is the south koreans and japanese us in reaction to their covey. 19 curbs posed on chinese travelers, brazil's president luther anacio, lyla da silva, has criticized the army for not doing enough to stop the supporters of jaya. both an arrow from storming the nation seats of power lula made those statements during a meeting with governors, where he vowed to punish those behind sundays attack. least 17 people have been killed in southern peru during anti government protests demanding the release of former president pedro castillo. most of the deaths occurred as people tried to overrun an airport in the sound of li eulley aka peruse human rights agency has called for an investigation police in germany,
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removing climate activists. we've gathered near an open cut mine in the western village of lute seraph, thousands of crime act was form human chains and set up a city to stop the expansion plans whose route is due to be demolished in order to expand a coal. mine is part of germany's plan to maintain coal supplies, while it reduces its dependence. some russian gas and oil. yup. say those are the headlines. the news continues announces era after time of pandemic. stay with us for that. ah, science vaccines, healthy justice. i'm trying to find out if the world learned anything from r h i v experience in south africa for this time of global cove at 19 human societies have long faced the threats of disease. and despite so many breakthroughs, a modem, medicine, we find ourselves living under the shadow of pandemic that we struggle to contain
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the phoenix useful, then an academic priority should ever ever come before the health of the people that you're working with is a question about that. sitting at the center of infectious disease control is tony found she for decades, he's been behind all for ki interventions that have prevented outbreaks from becoming global pandemic. a bona zacko sauce. you name it, but his life's work. his passion has centered around h r. v. why don't you just want to do that? why don't you, to that want you to that you have to play are the most successful vaccines or against diseases in which ultimately the immune system clears the virus. so when you do a vaccine, you design it exactly to act like a natural infection. don't want to do that with each id. was, you know,
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the natural infection. does it reduce the good immune response? so you got to do better with a chug no matching some less than killing sommerling is a sort of madison. hi guys flow by monday the to me companies go up there. no m m i z whom window shall pile. i was on for no said his is a condo moon being land got when i was so gallivant. oh, tele medicine and i given i know why there was some, some is of a positive i was telling you void, hey, good thing didn't a my in the q i known as to sac with a couple of even after you got it visit,
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i would advocate or i would say pamela is had so total perform wanna know how much i owe. husband is just the st. angelo mckesson sub, what day? it was the kitchen, piano, new york south. this is the agent that woman need. it's the agency. we don't have to worry about applying a charge me because you have something in your body to protect it as an empowerment tool. with the thought in mind. if it covered an h, i v, or only 2 of the many zonati viruses that have jumped into humans, we need to know why. in recent decades, this is happening with increasing occurrence presently
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were being confronted by a new series of pathogens that are emerging out of the deep force and spilling over into human populations. and that seems to be increasing since the start of the century. there's been some brilliant work done by scientists to illuminate the origins of h. i. b, patrice han and her group in 2006 were able to identify 2 chimp populations in southeastern cameron that were hosting simian immune deficiency viruses that were the closest related to h i. b, one a group of that follow 2 years layer led by michael or
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a b, were able to put a date on that spill over event. the event happened in 19 o 8 gifford take 20 years on either side of bad. what was going on in 19 o 8, in this particular spot in south eastern cameron. it was a period of a colonization, and you had the french and germans attempting to subjugate a local indigenous groups into a new global economy. the login of central africa's reign for us required a large workforce to keep up with the demands for exports from the global north to feed all these workers corporations actually employed paypal mass to hunt down push meet ah ah,
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they will probably individual jumps of virus from chimps, the humans, because they use it as bush me. a man gets infected. he's out hunting, which in he gives it to his wife. she gets infected. they're monogamous. they both get sick. they both die. you don't notice until you perturbed civilization. it could have happened 50 years ago a 100 years ago, 200 years ago. but it happened with the right constellation of perturbing society. people's god doing trucking. they stay away from
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home. just the normal practices of your society, lead to the spread of infectious disease. ah, saint clair tory lance can be shifted upon colbert 19. miss thorns one emerged in 2002. it came out of bats and central china and a lot of work since then mapped out all the different types of corona viruses crossed central and southern china. increased exploitation. the landscape increased the spill over events into all sorts of other
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species that are suddenly finding themselves being sold at market ah, planted heard is better known now as planet farm. there's a lot of focus on the gps coordinates, the actual spot in which the virus emerged in the focus that was serving as a means of greenwashing, the broader global radical economy. that was in fact driving the emergence of these new pathogen with we began to look at what are call circuits of capital, our capital moods on one side of the world to the other. we came to the conclusion that places like london and new york, hong kong which are the centers of capital, are the worst disease hotspots on the planet. in part because as being the source
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of the capital, driving the deforestation and development from one side of the world to the other, they were serving as the primary causes for the spill over events of pathogens, from wildlife into a lifestyle in humans with . and then one day, a virus jumps from a debt to another animal to be human. and then now it's not sexual practice. we're unlucky enough to have a virus that spectacularly efficient in spreading from person to person by the respiratory route. and there's not much you can do about that, but as you guys would do in an effort to locking yourselves into your house, but you can't do that forever. and that's so a respiratory infection spreads every time we have an epidemic that's just an
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affirmation of our sameness. we all have the receptor for the virus and her nose. but the fuel of the virus is density. the fuel virus is close. interpersonal contact. people who live in high density so these disparities brought out magnified in all populations throughout the world. you got to understand the social determinants of health. you know, in the united states with cove it, we have an extraordinary disparity. where is african americans and latinos, x and asian americans? their infection rate and death rate is enormously higher. ah. so when you broaching a disease,
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you need to understand that if you don't understand it, you're not gonna get your arms around the disease. for many ross, particularly if you're black and poor, it doesn't matter if you're in the global south or living in a wealthy nation, you're hanging on to life by a threat. then these pandemic come along, covered i chart, v and the o. it's against you to stack up. ah ah, how do we manage an epidemic when we have no support for the poor and we have no
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support for the sick. and so not only are we going to see people dying from cove at 19 in our country, we're going to see people dying from other diseases like h. harvey and t. b. new york state now has more reported corona virus cases than any country in the world. world wide, it's clear the public healthcare systems, or the last fortress against pandemic, watts at burton. and in the united states, the pioneer of privatization coverage, showing how their ladies could modify the social right to house the u. s. was now prepared for this pandemic, in effect, abandoned of public health or the cove at 19 outbreak. show this in
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open ah clarity. when the trump administration took over, he ended the pandemic preparation. he divested out of public health. that's in part how we've arrived that this apparent clash between science on the one hand in trump, on the other. ah, when i catch up with toby, found him, he remains diplomatic about the deep riffs that fall between him and the then president we were consider the best prepared country for a pin them. but as it turns out, when you get a walker like cove it 19, you never as prepared as you really want to be. so that was the tension that sort of merged into some political divisiveness in the country.
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a 28000000 americans are without insurance, even after obamacare. 24000000 americans are under insured. o slots of the country are in essence disconnected out our of our capacity to intervene in their health insurer. mm. ah, i think actually h r v vaccine to get where it is. but with coverage when we're looking at the end of this year. well, it's been more than a decade rad. we started that vaccine were in nature, the 1986 to $7.00. the amps study if it works, if we do get protection, will be the 1st in
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a multi step process of getting very good protection my pearson transmitted in definitely worth the investment. particularly among women in south africa who were at such enormous risk of getting infected at around the same time as the 1st covey vaccines were gaining emergency approval. early results of the ab trav were released, providing some hope at last for an h r v vaccine. to now i'm going to show you the results came from. okay. so this shows you that the, that they infection rate was lower. e, in the,
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in the treatment arms in the infusion arms, it shows us that the infusion dead were cookies. sarah, they would say is that then she a positive, a positive result. very happy is an amazing, amazing, well, this is the legacy t, your parents. okay? so by volunteering and letting them with a good results coming out of the i'm trial a vaccine that prevents h r g is finally insight. but what will this really mean for the world's poor? who's a vaccine get to the people who need it? or like covered who, payton spi, used to limit supplies,
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ensuring higher profits for a small group of powerful companies. there is a growing concerned as we end 2020, about why it is taking so long for the country to receive the coven 19 vaccine. the entire world has promised solidarity at the beginning of this pandemic. but at the same time, which country is what already buying up supplies, what we call the advance market commitment, or pre dosages of something that was not checked on the market. 13 percent of the world's population who reside in rich countries had bought up more than half of the wells potential supply of vaccine. this current vaccine nation is a new, a new to baxley nationalism they bought for their own countries. in fact, some cases, 2 or 3 and one, because even 5 times the amount that's required for the population gentle, there any comes to other vaccines that their premium produced into public
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immunization programs against life threatening diseases they can, can to 20 years before those vaccines become available in low income countries compared to india, to duke and high income countries. this is where we were with the h. i. v. pandemic. 8 years after the therapeutics were available in the west. we have not received them and we lost 10000000 people. is the old movie again. we have no access to vaccines. and we were led down the garden pass. okay. we got to december believing that the whole world was coming together to purchase vaccines. not knowing that we had been curled into a little corner,
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whilst others ran off and secured the supplies. it was deliberate. those with the resources pushed their way to the front of the queue and took control of their production assets. the same thing they paid out in age of 8. if you rely on charity and if you rely only on the benevolence on the pharmaceutical industry, you work secure nothing. and in hindsight, to take such a risk to pack a whole nation's health and welfare on charity. seems crazy to me. especially as we know that some variance are causing worldwide concern because of their ability to dodge antibodies. surely the safe thing to do would be to flood the world with vaccines to get the virus less room to mutate. viruses do
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not mutate unless they are allowed to replicate and spread. if you prevent the virus from spreading, it will not you take and you will not get another very using the idea of this being a gigantic clinical trial. dr. glenda gray, i'm professor larry curry. organize a shipment of 500000 vaccines into south africa. that would work against the verite dominant at the time, i'm beginning to overwhelm our hospitals. long day, long, a long, long day, and long a long, 14 days. hopefully we'll be able to fix needs, half a 1000000 healthcare is that we then get the vaccine to them that before the 3rd wave, their game to be burned. time is this going to be misery?
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we have millions of immunosuppressed people in our country and these millions are potential ways of was for variance of concern. africa becomes this cesspool of variance of concern, and we don't have vaccines. and so i think that this going to get worse and worse throughout africa. we have seen that wherever h i v became endemic. so did tuberculosis. the waves of infectious diseases are influencing each other. at the same time, the higher the burden of disease, the more public health systems get on to mind. then because we
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can't care for our sick, we are threatened by dead li mutations that one day may not be able to respond to our vaccines at all. this is a vicious circle playing out in our life time with deadly consequences for the entire whoa. the patrons prevented people getting h i v medicine was devastating for the global south. the failure to learn this with cover it has in my view, be nothing less than a crime against humanity. it's some be capitalism marching us towards our mutual destruction. surely it's time we finally break our dependency on the pharmaceutical companies as we began to do, sir 20 years ago with h i v drugs to
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water society learnt from this time offender mix that we have encroached upon nature to the extent that now it's only a matter of time before we face another threat, that seems clear enough. but what about the more difficult issue of how prepared we are for what to come cove, it has revealed that our current approach to public health is simply not working. maybe this is our last chance to go back to it all the path. we once traveled health as a basic right. not letting the market determine who gets access to innovation. not treating the global south as a charity case and turning us into
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a petri dish of variance. not letting the crest for profit they'd us all further into catastrophe. is it really such a radical idea to poke people 1st? oh ah . i think of some of the biggest companies in the world today big take with algorithms that they call the move that we use them, the more data we produce wearing the me a great race to the data and big companies around the checks empires are rising on
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a wealth of information and we need all the commodity in the 2nd to provide policy . reasonably re examines where the corporations are colonizing internet, like popularity and power of big tech on a jazeera with we've got another pacific storm crashing into the coast of california up and down the coast. however, on these are the details. so, drenching rain, san francisco, los angeles, about 2 hours west of los angeles, half a years worth of rain in 24 hours. and we've got some serious snow for the sierra nevada. talkin about a meter to a meter and half of new accumulation. this is less so a story for oregon, washington state and canada is british columbia. sure. a bit more cloud cover and a few showers, but nothing like they're seen in california for canada's newfoundland province. specifically the avalon, i think we're gonna have near blizzard conditions here, about $25.00 centimeters of snow and wind gusts, anywhere from about 80 to
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a 100 kilometers per hour. off to the u. s. gulf states, the se, not a whole lot going on. it's a sun cloud combo here, so it's carry on. we're now into central america and some showers around this region, but plenty in the way of sunshine to come south and of south america. there are weather alerts in play for me now. some brazilian for just how much rain we're going to see. it's been incredibly warm for patagonia, but things are changing. we look to war commodore reba davia. that's the song of what's to come for places like by jablonka, your temperatures will drop by about 10 degrees toward the end of the week. that's a snapshot of your weather catch you later. bye for now. ah. the american people have spoken, but what exactly did they say is the world looking for a whole new border with less america in it is the woke agenda on the decline in america. how much is social media companies know about you? and how easy is it to manipulate the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line?
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